A shaky video of chengguan, street-level urban management enforcers, ripping down decorative Spring Festival couplets in Jiangsu’s Pei County went viral this past week. The controversy metastasized after the freelance journalist...
The below essay is a translation of WeChat blogger “Brother Lou’s” account of being invited to “drink tea” after sending a Weibo post questioning the integrity of a local Zhejiang police department. The essay was censored by...
A group of students under the impression they had discovered a WeChat “bug” that hides the phrase “200 jin of dumplings” (roughly 220 pounds) had in fact stumbled upon an obscure insult for Xi Jinping that triggers automatic...
A slate of independent candidates for Beijing’s district-level People’s Congress have announced that they are suspending their grassroots campaign due to fears for their personal safety in the wake of police threats and...
Numerous Chinese activists, bloggers and ordinary netizens have experienced being “invited to tea” by the police—ostensibly for a casual discussion at the police station over a real or metaphorical cup of tea. At best, the...
Recent months have seen a spate of detentions and interrogations of Twitter users within China,...
Although blocked since 2009, Twitter has long hosted a sizeable community of users within China,...
Xi Jinping’s ongoing crackdown on civil society and parallel drive to reinforce ideological...
Last week, according to the U.S. government-backed Radio Free Asia, domestic security officers in...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Dangerous levels of pollution in and around Chengdu, Sichuan earlier this month inspired denizens...
Local news assistants provide invaluable but often unsung research, translation, and logistical...
For Vice, Arvind Dilawar interviews artist Wu Yuren about life under surveillance, as he is called...
After author Murong Xuecun issued a “statement of surrender” to Chinese authorities...
China Change has posted an adaptation of a 2011 essay by liberal scholar and Charter 08 signatory...
In his latest New York Times op-ed, writer Murong Xuecun writes about the impact that persistent...
As close to 15,000 (and counting) pig carcasses are being pulled from the Huangpu River, the story has become a hot topic on weibo and elsewhere online in China, with cartoonists satirizing the scene and others questioning how...
The blogger who released a sex video that brought down Chongqing official Lei Zhengfu last year has refused to hand over footage of other officials despite threats of prison time for withholding evidence. Following a late-night...
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